| General info : | | David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931, Poole, England – 12 December 2020, Truro, England (aged 89)), better known by his pen name John le Carré , was a British author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television.
A "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", he is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Near the end of his life, le Carré became an Irish citizen.
Le Carré's third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), became an international best-seller, was adapted as an award-winning film, and remains one of his best-known works. This success allowed him to leave MI6 to become a full-time author. His other novels that have been adapted for film or television include The Looking Glass War (1965), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), Smiley's People (1979), The Little Drummer Girl (1983), The Russia House (1989), The Night Manager (1993), The Tailor of Panama (1996), The Constant Gardener (2001), A Most Wanted Man (2008) and Our Kind of Traitor (2010). In 2008, The Times named le Carré one of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Philip Roth said that A Perfect Spy (1986) was "the best English novel since the war".
In 1954, Cornwell married Alison Ann Veronica Sharp. They had three sons: Simon, Stephen and Timothy; they divorced in 1971.
In 1972, Cornwell married Valerie Jane Eustace, a book editor with Hodder & Stoughton who collaborated with him behind the scenes. They had a son, Nicholas, who writes as Nick Harkaway.
Le Carré lived in St Buryan, Cornwall, for more than 40 years; he owned a mile of cliff near Land's End. | |
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| Relations : | | Married to : Valerie Jane Eustacem. 1972 | |
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